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With Andrew McGregor.

Sibelius Lemminkainen's Return (Legends) - Los Angeles PO, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

6.40 Vaughan Williams Flos Campi - Philip Dukes (viola) Northern Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox

7.05 Vivaldi Concerto in G minor (RV310) - Lucerne Festival Strings/ Rudolf Baumgartner

7.32 Part Festina lente - Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conductor Richard Studt

8.05 Moszkowski Tarantella - Seta Tanyel (piano)

8.44 Fayrfax Maris plena virtute - The Cardinall's Musick, director Andrew Carwood

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew McGregor
Musicians:
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Viola player:
Philip Dukes
Musicians:
Northern Sinfonia
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Musicians:
Lucerne Festival Strings
Conductor:
Rudolf Baumgartner
Musicians:
Bournemouth Sinfonietta
Conductor:
Richard Studt
Pianist:
Seta Tenyel
Musicians:
The Cardinall's Musick
Music Director:
Andrew Carwood

Boccherinl La ritirata di
Madrid (Guitar Quintet in C, G453)
Pepe Romero (guitar) Academy of St Martin Chamber Ensemble
9.07 Mozart Violin
Concerto No 5 in A (K219) Gidon Kremer (violin) Vienna PO, conductor
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
9.35 Weill Suite: The
Threepenny Opera London Sinfonietta, conductor David Atherton
Discs

Contributors

Guitar:
Pepe Romero
Violin:
Gidon Kremer
Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Conductor:
David Atherton

With Chris de Souza.
Busoni Comedy Overture
10.09 Franz In meinem
Garten; Die Lotosblume
10.13 Artist of the Week:
Philip Fowke (piano)
Schubert Sonata in A (D664)
10.37 Verdi Te Deum
(Quattro pezzi sacri)
10.54 Casella Scarlattiana
11.24 Ramsey When David Heard
11.27 Tchaikovsky Fate
11.46 Joseph Marx Selige Nacht
11.48 Johann Strauss
(son), arr Schulz-Evler Concert Arabesque on Themes from "The Blue
Danube"

Contributors

Unknown:
Verdi Te Deum
Unknown:
Casella Scarlattiana
Unknown:
Joseph Marx Selige
Unknown:
Johann Strauss

5: Intimate Letters
The composer's last works, including his second quartet, the most passionate expression of his love for Kamila Stosslova. Letters read by Ronald Pickup .
Violin Concerto (Pilgrimage of the Soul)
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Philharmonia/Libor Pesek From the House of the Dead
Soloists
Vienna PO, conductor
Charles Mackerras
String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters) Smetana Quartet

Contributors

Unknown:
Kamila Stosslova.
Read By:
Ronald Pickup
Violin:
Christian Tetzlaff

With Susan Sharpe.
1.00
Chamber Music from
Manchester
From the Concert
Hall, New
Broadcasting House, introduced by Rodney Slatford.
Mayumi Seiler (violin)
Caroline Palmer (piano) Prokofiev Five Melodies,
Op 35a Schubert Fantasia in C
(D934)
2.00 Schools
Let's Make a Story 2.15 Music Box 2.30 Dance
Workshop 2.50 Poetry Corner
3.00 Mining the Archive Shura Cherkassky died on 27 December 1995 at the age of 86. Susan Sharpe introduces a wide range of recordings he made for the BBC and, in conversation with those who knew him, paints a picture of this highly individual virtuoso from the grand tradition of master pianists.
Producer Susan Kenyon
A Tribute to Shura Cherkassky is broadcast on Saturday 10 February
4.20 By the Waters of Babylon
In the fifth of nine programmes, the Rev Alan Walker enters a church just off Oxford Street named after the Holy Family in exile, and finds the Ukrainian Greek Catholic community singing the Lord's song in a strange land.
4.30 Brazil
The Roots of Samba
In Brazil they say everything ends up in samba. Veteran samba hero Paulinho da
Viola looks back at the development of samba in Rio at the beginning of the century and explores how the music and festivities of the marginalised African-Brazilians have become a source of national pride. An Angell Sound production

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Introduced By:
Rodney Slatford.
Violin:
Mayumi Seiler
Piano:
Caroline Palmer
Unknown:
Shura Cherkassky
Introduces:
Susan Sharpe
Producer:
Susan Kenyon
Unknown:
Shura Cherkassky
Unknown:
Alan Walker

From the Barbican
Hall, London.
Conductor Semyon Bychkov Maxim Vengerov (violin)
Gilbert Amy Trois scenes pour orchestre (first UK performance)
Mendelssohn Violin
Concerto in E minor
8.20 Twentieth-Century Masterworks
Steve Martland talks about
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Rpt
8.40 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

Contributors

Conductor:
Semyon Bychkov
Violin:
Maxim Vengerov
Violin:
Gilbert Amy Trois
Talks:
Steve Martland

Michael Rnnissy
From the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, Sarah Walker introduces a concert marking the 50th birthday of composer and pianist Michael Finnissy. Nic Hodges performs a selection of Finnissy's piano music, including Gershwin transcriptions, the early Snowdrift and a revised version of Free Setting. And the Cambridge New Music Players are directed by Paul Hoskins in the first three
Obrecht Motets and two pieces with Aboriginal titles, Teangi and Ourra. John Tilbury
The work of John Tilbury , a British pianist from a complementary tradition, is considered by friends and colleagues as he reaches his 60th birthday. Producer Alan Hall

Contributors

Introduces:
Sarah Walker
Pianist:
Michael Finnissy.
Pianist:
Nic Hodges
Directed By:
Paul Hoskins
Unknown:
John Tilbury
Unknown:
John Tilbury
Producer:
Alan Hall

The Latin Seducers
In the fifth of six programmes tracing the history of cabaret, Robert Ziegler visits the famously nocturnal city of Barcelona. It was here that the nationalist ardour and Parisian influence combined to create something inspirational. Spain also bequeathed a more passionate legacy, albeit by way of South America. The dance was called the tango, and the man who was to become the embodiment of the tango singer was Carlos Gardel.
A Heavy Entertainment production

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Ziegler
Unknown:
Carlos Gardel.

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